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SUMMARY:RITA
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala\, 2024\nSpanish with English subtitles | 106 mins | Narrative \nGuatemalan Maestro Jayro Bustamante (IXCANUL\, LA LLORONA) -to who the Festival dedicated a retrospective in 2022- returns with a grim fairy tale\, another brilliant examination of his country’s tumultuous history told through a fantastical genre lens. \nBased one of Guatemala’s most harrowing tragedies\, an orphanage fire that claimed the lives of 41 girls\, Rita\, a 13-year-old girl who is placed at a government-run orphanage after escaping an abusive household. The girls inside share a prophecy that an angel-like being will rescue them from the orphanage’s abusive employees. As in his “La Llorona\,” Bustamante uses horror and magical realist tropes to explore his country’s dark history. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/rita/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:International Hits
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